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The Artaghean language (Ártægåsk; Portuguese: Idioma artagues) is a constructed language originally planned to be spoken in Artaghe but later changed to Koss, currently under development. It is based off Icelandic and Faryaese languages, with light Norwegian and Afrikaans influences on vocabulary and grammar, though phonology is kept untouched.

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History

The modern Artaghean language holds no relation with the previously known Artaghean (now referred as Old Artaghean by the SOAS). Old Artaghean was unwanted and poorly developed. The language quickly failed to become popular and it was outlawed. Artaghe used Spanish as official language during the interval between the outlawing of Old Artaghean and the introduction of modern Artaghean. The original ideas for modern Artaghean included the introduction of Spanish and Wayuu influences, and although Spanish has inspired some deviant specific parts of the common vocabulary, Wayuu influence failed to work; this due to the small resources of Wayuu studies, being a minority language spoken by the small community that the Guajiros represent.

The modern Artaghean as deemed by the SOAS counts with some small Afrikaans and Norwegian influences, with some English and Spanish touches vocabulary-wise, and an enormous Icelandic influence, as much vocabulary-wise as phonology-wise.

Alphabet

Logo of the SOAS

The Artaghean alphabet consists of 33 letters, same of the Icelandic alphabet, plus the additional Ø and Å; minus the Ö. This letters use the Latin alphabet with diacritics, with additional Ðð (eth) and Þþ (thorn). This letters have very similar pronunciations.

Phonology

The language doesn't have much dialectal differences. Consonants can be either voiced or unvoiced, and has both diphthongs and monophthongs, the latter being less common in Spanish. Voice plays a primary role in the differentiation of most consonants including the nasals but excluding the plosives. The plosives b, d, and g are voiceless and differ from p, t and k only by their lack of aspiration. Preaspiration occurs before geminate (long or double consonants) p, t and k. It does not occur before geminate b, d or g. Pre-aspirated tt is analogous etymologically and phonetically to German and Dutch cht (compare Icelandic nótt, dóttir with the GermanNacht, Tochter and the Dutchnacht, dochter).

Vowels

Grammar

Universal Declaration of Human Rights written in Artaghean

Compared to its parent languages Icelandic-Faryaese and Spanish, the Artaghean is a less-inflected language. Artaghean nouns don't have, in common manner, a grammatical gender; -uses a standard neuter noun- but variations can be found in special cases. Artaghean follows however, in contrast, a strict grammatical number use (singular and plural). It consists of four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and the less important genitive. There are two main declension paradigms for each gender: strong and weak nouns, which are furthermore divided in sub-classes of nouns, based primarily on the genitive singular and nominative plural ending of a particular noun.

The basic word order in Artaghean is subject–verb–object. However, as words are heavily inflected, the word order is fairly flexible and every combination may occur in special cases, i.e. SVO, SOV, VSO, VOS, OSV and OVS are all allowed for metrical purposes. However, as in Icelandic the conjugated verb in Artaghean usually appears second in the sentence, preceded by the word or phrase being emphasised. For example:

Éj kønn það næj. (I don't know that.)

Næj kønn éj það. (I do not know that.)

Það kønn éj næj. (That I don't know.)

In the above examples, the conjugated verb kønn ("know") is always the second element in its respective sentences.

Pronouns

Nominative

Accusative

Posessive

I

Éj

Mýr

Mínn(u)

You

Ðu

Ðu

Ðínn

He

Hán

Hán

Háns

She

Þún

Þún

Þúr

It

Það

Það

Þaðs

We

Vy

Vý

Výrs

They

Þéi

Þéi

Þéir

Relations with other languages

Artaghean passport with Artaghean as main language

Artaghean can be related the most with Icelandic, to the point where many words are alike. However, the Artaghean language has some relations with Spanish and Norwegian vocabulary-wise. The language contrasts with its parent languages because of the common genderless nouns (low inflection). Artaghean also has a light influence of Norwegian within its vocabulary, creating an "anglization" or "easternization" of the language.

Examples

English word

Artaghean

Faryaese

Icelandic

Norwegian

Swedish

Danish

know

kønn

kdar

veit

vet

vet

kender

blue

blåþ

bløþ

blár

blå

blå

blå

free

fríð

frðía

frítt

fri

fri

fri

Thank you

þakk

þákka

þakka

takk

tack

tak

The following is a comparison between nordic languages, English and Artaghean, in a brief description of Venezuela.